Investment Banking Associate - AI Product & Engineering
Cantor Fitzgerald / BGC Partners1 day ago
New York, NY, USAMid Level
Base Salary
$130k - $170k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design and build AI-powered tools for pitch decks, CIM drafting, comparable company analysis, diligence summarization, and market surveillance.
- Own end-to-end application development, including data sourcing, LLM integration, backend logic, and user-facing interfaces.
- Integrate firm data platforms and financial data sources to surface relevant information in real time.
- Monitor production performance, handle issues, and improve applications based on banker feedback.
- Partner with bankers, analysts, and associates to translate high-friction workflows into AI solutions.
- Manage the AI request intake pipeline, prioritize projects, and communicate timelines to stakeholders.
- Develop documentation, training materials, and support channels to drive user adoption.
- Track adoption, time savings, and business impact to continuously improve the AI program.
- Address compliance, data sensitivity, and regulatory constraints with InfoSec and Legal teams.
- Evaluate LLM advancements and cost-quality trade-offs for production deployment.
Requirements
- At least 2 years of experience in investment banking, corporate finance, equity research, or a closely related financial-services role.
- Hands-on experience building and deploying LLM-based applications beyond tutorials, including context pipelines and evaluation frameworks.
- Full-stack prototyping experience across data integration, backend logic, and user-interface development.
- Proficiency in at least one programming language, such as Python or JavaScript.
- Familiarity with Bloomberg, PitchBook, FactSet, SEC EDGAR, and financial data APIs and platforms.
- Strong understanding of investment-banking deal processes, including pitch construction, financial modeling, CIM/OM preparation, and capital-markets execution.
- Ability to work autonomously, define problems, and drive solutions from concept through production.
- Strong communication skills and ability to translate between technical and business stakeholders.
- Experience navigating compliance, data privacy, and regulatory requirements in financial services.
- Bachelor’s degree in finance, economics, computer science, engineering, or a quantitative discipline; an advanced degree is a plus.
- Sound judgment and ownership in ambiguous, fast-paced environments.
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About Cantor Fitzgerald / BGC Partners
Cantor Fitzgerald is a global financial services firm that brokers and trades fixed income and equities, underwrites and advises via its investment bank, and provides prime brokerage, asset management, and commercial real estate financing to institutions, corporations, and governments. Founded in 1945 and headquartered in New York, it operates worldwide and is affiliated with BGC Partners (NASDAQ: BGC), which runs interdealer brokerage and related financial technology businesses.